LIPPSTADT

'Lippstadt' () is a city in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the largest city within the district of Soest.

Contents

Geography

Neighbouring Places

Division of the town

Twin Towns

History

People

Economy

References

External links

Geography

Lippstadt is situated in the Lippe valley, approx. 70 kilometers east of Dortmund and approx. 30 kilometers west of Paderborn. The historic city center is placed between an artificial canal of the river ''Lippe'' and the river itself.

Neighbouring Places

★ Bad Sassendorf ★ Delbrück ★ Erwitte ★ Geseke ★ Langenberg

★ Lippetal ★ Rietberg ★ Salzkotten ★ Wadersloh

Division of the town

Lippstadt consists of 18 districts:

★ Lippstadt ★ Bad Waldliesborn ★ Benninghausen ★ Bökenförde ★ Cappel ★ Dedinghausen ★ Eickelborn ★ Esbeck ★ Garfeln

★ Hellinghausen ★ Herringhausen ★ Hörste ★ Lipperbruch ★ Lipperode ★ Lohe ★ Overhagen ★ Rebbeke ★ Rixbeck

Twin Towns

★ Uden (Netherlands) -- since 1971

History

In the early 13th century Lippstadt, with a population of 2700, had four parish churches. There was an Augustinian abbey since 1281.
Heinrich von Ahaus founded one of his female communities of the Brethren of the Common Life there.
In 1523 it formed a defensive alliance with the neighboring cities of Osnabrück, Dortmund, Soest and Münster.
Augustinians studying at the University of Wittenberg brought Martin Luther's doctrine home with them. Thus in 1524 the Lutheran opinions were preached at Lippstadt by their prior Westermann, and the city was one of the first to embrace it officially; it resisted to rise of Calvinism in rural Westphalia.
In 1821 the Papal Bull "De salute animarum", made over to the bishopric of Paderborn the Lippian parishes of Cappel, Lipperode and Lippstadt, which had previously belonged to the Archbishopric of Cologne without producing any ensuing ageement with the state of Lippe.
In 1851 the whole of Lippstadt, which up to then had been divided between the Kingdom of Prussia and Lippe, was added to the Prussian royal province of Westphalia.
In 1944 a female subcamp of Buchenwald was founded in Lippstadt. It was also the site for a displaced persons camp in the years following World War II.

People

★ Sotirios Sarbezoudis (
★ 1976 in Lippstadt ), Greek Explorer and Socialist Activist.

★ Anton Praetorius (
★ 1560 in Lippstadt, + 1613), theologian, fighter against witchcraft trials and torture

★ Martin Niemöller (
★ 1892 in Lippstadt, + 1984), theologian

★ Professor Conrad Hansen (
★ 24.11.1906 in Lippstadt, + 2002) piano player und music educator

★ Kaspar Ulenberg, Lutheran convert to catholicism, theological writer and translator of the Bible into German

★ Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (
★ 1955 in Lippstadt ), German soccer player

Economy

Lippstadt serves as headquarters of international automotive supplier Hella. It is also home to a factory of large-diameter antifriction bearings, seamless-rolled rings manufacturer Rothe Erde.

References

★ (pasim)

External links

★ Official Site

★ Touristic information

★ Company homepage Hella

★ Company homepage Rothe Erde